Scento Perfume API

Looking for a free perfume API that works with AI assistants? Scento Perfume API is a fragrance API and perfume MCP server over Scento's verified perfume database: 1,500+ perfumes, 160+ houses, 400+ raw materials, every notes pyramid traced to the house or an authorized retailer.

What you get: a perfume notes database you can query by name, note, family or occasion; a fragrance ingredients database (400+ raw materials with the perfumes that use them); similar-scent and head-to-head comparison endpoints; scent family maps; occasion edits and wardrobe building; a perfumery lexicon; and a journal search for editorial context. Twelve tools in total: perfume-search, perfume-portrait, scent-neighbours, perfume-contrast, note-portrait, material-match, house-portrait, family-map, occasion-edit, wardrobe-composer, perfumery-lexicon, journal-search.

Use it two ways. As an MCP server (remote, streamable HTTP) at https://www.scento.com/mcp, or via npx -y perfume-mcp-server and uvx perfume-mcp-server for stdio clients. Or as plain REST at https://www.scento.com/api/perfume/v1 with an OpenAPI document at /openapi.json. Both are free and need no API key.

Typical uses: a chatbot that recommends perfumes with real notes, a fragrance finder, a "smells like" lookup, a retailer enriching product pages with a notes pyramid, a student project, or an AI agent that needs a trustworthy perfume database API instead of guessing. Responses come in 10 languages.

Maintained by Scento. Docs and live examples: https://www.scento.com/developers

A free perfume and fragrance API and MCP server over Scento's verified perfume database, from Scento. Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client for the portrait of a perfume, the difference between two you are torn over, the scents built on the same structure, or what a raw material such as ambroxan smells like. Every answer is tied to a page on scento.com. No key, no account, read-only.

This package is a small local bridge (Node 18 or later, no dependencies beyond the standard library). It speaks MCP over stdio for clients that only run local servers, and relays each message to the Scento Perfume API at https://www.scento.com/mcp.

Install

Add it to your client's MCP configuration (Claude Desktop claude_desktop_config.json, Cursor ~/.cursor/mcp.json, VS Code .vscode/mcp.json using servers in place of mcpServers, Windsurf and others):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "perfume-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "perfume-mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

Or run the command yourself:

npx -y perfume-mcp-server

Check it from a terminal:

npx -y perfume-mcp-server --help

Use another endpoint with --endpoint <url>.

No bridge needed?

Most clients can talk to the Scento Perfume API directly. Add the remote URL as a custom connector (Claude, ChatGPT) or as an HTTP server:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "perfume-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.scento.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Prefer plain HTTP? The same answers are on the REST API with an OpenAPI file.

The twelve tools

| Tool | What it does | |---|---| | perfume-search | Find perfumes, houses and raw materials in Scento's verified perfume database by name, house, note or mood word. | | perfume-portrait | The full portrait of one perfume: pyramid, Scento family, character and when it wears best. | | scent-neighbours | Perfumes that share the most structure with a given one, with the shared materials named. | | perfume-contrast | Set two to four perfumes side by side on family, pyramid, character and season. | | note-portrait | What a note or raw material is, where it comes from and how it reads on skin. | | material-match | Perfumes that contain every material given, optionally in one tier of the pyramid. | | house-portrait | A perfume house: origin, founding year, style and its signature perfumes. | | family-map | Scento's own fragrance-family system, or one family with its subfamilies and exemplars. | | occasion-edit | A short edit of perfumes for an occasion, season or climate, with a line on each. | | wardrobe-composer | Three to five perfumes that cover different moments, built around what the person already loves. | | perfumery-lexicon | Plain-language meaning of a perfumery term such as sillage, chypre, fougère or EDP versus EDT. | | journal-search | Scento journal articles on a perfume, house, material or topic. |

Pass lang (de, fr, es, it, ro, el, hu, cs, pl) to receive scento.com links in that language.

Links

• Developers page: https://www.scento.com/developers
• Scento: https://www.scento.com

Scento is Europe's largest perfume decant website, founded in Paris in 2024. MIT licence (this bridge only).